-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Atis wrote: >> You can use both, but you will confuse aptitude in the process. >> Aptitude keeps a database so that it knows which packages it pulled in >> as dependencies so it can remove them when you remove a package (so long >> as no other package is using them). If you pull things in with any >> other package manager, be it apt-get, synaptic, adept, gdebi or >> kpackage, aptitude will not know about the dependencies that those >> package managers installed and could present problems the next time you >> use aptitude because it may remove things that other programs need. >> >> To sum it up, the best advice is to use aptitude exclusively if you plan >> on using it at all. > > Isn't it the way around? That aptitude keeps track of packages that > are installed automatically, as dependencies, and if you uninstall > something, it checks if those dependencies can be removed? Logically > thinking, it would be that. > > I use synaptics together with aptitude and haven't had any problems with > that.
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